The subject of this movie, an adult 'returning' into a child's body, or getting a child's body, has always fascinated me. My main question in that case is always: how would I convince my family, my friends, that it is me, when it would happen to me? Because that is clearly the major problem in such a case. Unlike many other movies about adults becoming young again 'Birth' is a serious and, I'd say, realistic approach of this concept. As a viewer you, like the people in the movie itself, constantly wonder whether it is really the old Sean, or not. At least as fascinating to me is the adult-child relationship that (would) almost naturally come(s) forth if/when Anna believes the boy. This movie makes the existence of true love between a young boy (Sean appears as a 12 year old, even though they claim he is 10) and a grown up woman understandable, albeit from a weird kind of angle (he'd be her late husband), the idea of a relationship is still clearly of pedophile nature to Anna.
Finally, I want to remark that there are wonderful, long close-ups of faces in this movie, where things are happening solely through the facial expressions of the actors; at one moment (Anna in the theater) I understood something that could not have been brought anything better or more emotional than in this way -- wonderful!
Finally, I want to remark that there are wonderful, long close-ups of faces in this movie, where things are happening solely through the facial expressions of the actors; at one moment (Anna in the theater) I understood something that could not have been brought anything better or more emotional than in this way -- wonderful!